Any Open Water Swimmers Here?

DMF

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Like it reads.
I myself don't wear wetsuits here in Lake Michigan.
I can't think of any better overall exercise.
 
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Is there a question or a link associated with this remark? I am also an open swimmer who does not favor wetsuits. It restricts movement and also blocks PEMF. That said, I will swim with a wetsuit jacket, but the bottoms are really restrictive and uncomfortable.
 

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https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/07/04/swimming-dangers-flesh-eating-bacteria-cryptosoridium/1617024001/

[2019] At least nine Michigan beaches are closed this week because high bacteria levels in the water make them unsafe for swimming, according to the Department of Environmental Quality's Michigan BeachGuard System.


https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/creepy-swimmer-rsquo-s-itch-parasite-in-northern-lakes-can-scratch-summer-fun/

Few officials take swimmers itch (also called cercarial dermatitis) very seriously as a public health problem. But Michigan has taken the lead in battling it with research and control measures targeting ducks that act as hosts to schistosomes—near-microscopic, wormlike parasites whose larvae try to burrow into people’s skin. This can trigger an allergic reaction in the form of violently itching red bumps that characterize swimmer’s itch. Thanks in large part to the MSIP’s lobbying, Michigan’s 2016–17 government budget has provided $250,000 toward trapping common merganser ducks—blamed for 95 percent of the swimmer’s itch parasites in the popular tourist lakes of northwestern Michigan—and releasing them in areas where parasites cannot reproduce. MSIP plans to help organize similar groups this summer in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
 

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